Are we LIVING in the Truman Show?

Have you ever felt someone watching you, or caught someone trying to implant ideas into your head?
Is this just me being paranoid again, or is that super annoying lady from work who constantly talks to me about Costco, really trying to get me to buy their oversized pizza!

Everywhere I go, I feel like I'm being subtly sold, influenced, and lured into making decisions not necessarily congruent with my own thoughts.

This is the unsettling premise of The Truman Show.

In this video essay, we'll explore why this movie is a philosophical masterpiece: its connection to timeless ideas like Plato's Allegory of the Cave and existentialism, and to try and answer whether I am actually living this nightmare, or whether I'm just paranoid.